Organ Music Presentation

Join us in celebration of the repair of the chapel organ.  Michael Raymond Gittens, a Princeton University musician, will perform Wednesday, April 19 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. for an Organ Music Presentations and conclude with a Hymns Sing.  

Michael Raymond Gittens is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He studied organ performance at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio and The Juilliard School in New York City. He also studied organ privately with Solomon Herriott and Marsha Heather Long.
He has performed organ recitals throughout New York City, including such venues as St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cathedral of St. John the Divine and St. George’s Episcopal. In addition, he has done solo organ performances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center (NYC).
At Carnegie Hall, he appeared as guest choral conductor in concert with artists Elton John, Sting, Diana Ross, James Taylor and Don Henley.  He has been an accompanist, arranger and songwriter on several gospel recordings. 
Mr. Gittens currently serves as Minister of Liturgy and Worship at Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church in Camden, New Jersey and Choral Assistant at Princeton Theological Seminary.